| Gay Activists in California are trying to Steal Right to Vote on "Gay Marriage" Amendment |
| Gay Marriage Groups: Desperately Trying to Take Away YOUR Vote!!! |
June 24, 2008 |
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Dear A,
For more than a decade, gay marriage activists have relied upon the courts to advance their agenda, working hard to keep marriage out of the hands of their fellow citizens.
Now once again, a handful of activist organizations are working desperately to deny the people of California their right to amend the state constitution, reversing the four judges who last month struck down Proposition 22, approved by more than 4 million California voters in 2000.
We can't let them succeed. Will you help today?
As we reported on Saturday, a coalition of gay marriage groups in California has filed a lawsuit seeking to have the California Supreme Court invalidate the marriage amendment. This pre-election challenge seeks to remove the amendment from the ballot, effectively insulating the Supreme Court ruling from any review, denying Californians the opportunity even to vote on the definition of marriage.
The lawsuit, filed Friday by Equality California, the ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lambda Legal, alleges that the marriage amendment constitutes a constitutional "revision," rather than simply an "amendment," and thus must be proposed by the legislature and not by initiative petition.
There are two threats posed by this lawsuit:
1) First, the obvious threat that the amendment could be struck from the ballot. Legal scholars agree it is unlikely the court will remove the amendment from the ballot. There are no guarantees, however, and we are working to evaluate all options. Will the 4 judges who voted to overturn the will of the people once refrain from doing it a second time?
Under the California Constitution, a constitutional amendment may be proposed by initiative, but a constitutional "revision" requires a 2/3 majority in each house of the Legislature. However, the Constitution says nothing about what constitutes an amendment versus a revision.
Noted UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, writing on his blog at Volokh.com, explains that the marriage initiative "is likely to be found to be only an amendment, not a revision." Volokh explains that a constitutional revision is more likely to be found where the challenged measure "'"involve[s] a broad attack on state court authority to exercise independent judgment in construing a wide spectrum of important rights under the state Constitution,' as opposed to only dealing with one specific right" (quoting Raven v. Deukmejian, 52 Cal. 3d 336 (1990)).
Similar challenges in Alaska (1999) and Oregon (2008) were rejected by the courts of those states, with the Alaska Court specifically relying on California precedent for guidance.
Glen Lavy of the Alliance Defense Fund, representing ProtectMarriage in the amendment defense, denounced the lawsuit: "Equality California and its allies are desperate to evade democracy . . . First, they used the courts to erase the votes of nearly 5 million Californians who voted to protect marriage. Now, they are trying to silence the people’s voice forever."
2) Second, even assuming the amendment is affirmed by the court, we can't let the lawsuit distract us from our public messaging and fundraising efforts. With the election just 19 weeks from today, every day and every dollar is critical as we seek to get our message out.
I have a special request for you today. Will you ask five friends to join you in supporting the amendment? Will you do it today? Then e-mail me and let me know how they respond. Here's the quick link for online donations, with information for mailing checks as well.
Or if you prefer, you can send me their names and e-mail addresses, and I'll make sure they get our e-mail updates. But it's most effective to have people asking their friends to join them.
In fact, that's why we established our "Friends Asking Friends" campaign. The San Jose Mercury News just did a profile of Friends Asking Friends this past weekend, highlighting the efforts of one of our supporters who has already launched his own FAF fundraising webpage. As they note in the article, you don't have to be part of the "Facebook generation" to do this. It doesn't take any technical expertise, and anyone with web access can have their own site up and running in about 10 minutes.
With Friends Asking Friends (FAF), you set up your own fundraising webpage, set a fundraising goal, and then start sending personalized e-mails to friends and family asking them to join you in supporting the marriage amendment. Perhaps you would want to set up an FAF page for your church or Bible study group. Together you can work toward a shared goal. Click here to get started today.
In order to succeed in November, we need the help of thousands of Americans who are willing to stand for marriage. Will you give a gift of $35, $50 or more to support marriage where it's under the harshest attack? Will you give today? Fundraising experts explain that a donation in June or July is worth 2-3 times as much as a gift in October right before the election. Please give the most generous gift you can today.
If we lose in California, many people will think it's all over. But if we win in California, we'll send a message to the nation that Americans stand up for marriage.
Thank you for your prayers, financial support, and kind words of encouragement. With your help, we can and will be successful.
God bless, 
Brian S. Brown
Executive Director
National Organization for Marriage California
1530 East First Street, #218
Santa Ana, CA 92701
Toll-Free: (888)-201-8929
bbrown@nationformarriage.org
www.nomcalifornia.org
NOM California is a California sponsored primarily formed ballot committee. Contributions are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. Corporate, PAC and personal checks are acceptable. There is no limit on the amount of individual contributions. State election law requires us to publicly report cumulative contributions of $100 or more. Foreign nationals are prohibited by law from making contributions to this committee, unless they have permanent residency status in the United States of America. Contributors who give a total of $10,000 or more in a calendar year to this committee and to other California state or local committees will trigger their own campaign disclosure obligations.
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| YOUR COLLECTION DOLLARS AT WORK |
Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Hotel, Orlando FloridaThe United States Bishops will be holding their semi-annual meeting on June 12-14 at the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Hotel and Resort in Orlando Florida. Now don't get me wrong, I don't think the bishops should be staying at the Motel 6 for their meetings, but these 4 and 5 star hotels seem to be a bit...well, extravagant--especially since they keep telling us that we must all make sacrifices to help pay off over $1.5 billion in settlements of sex abuse cases--many of which stem from disordered men who never should have been ordained in the first place or who were moved from parish to parish--oops--I forgot--we're not supposed to focus on the negative here. The other troubling question is why Orlando? June 12-14 is in the middle of tourist season, which means rates are gouged up higher anyway, but Orlando? Orlando is the kingdom of kiddie parks and outlandish entertainments. Do our bishops really need all that distraction? Why couldn't they have their meeting in someplace less gaudy, like, say, Cleveland or Buffalo? Anyway, Nancy Frazier O'Brien at the Catholic News Service reports that the dominant issues the bishops are tackling this June will be liturgy and language, as well as embryonic stem-cell research, medically assisted nutrition and hydration as well as the topic that will not go away, clergy sex abuse. Let's examine each issue individually: • The USCCB Committe on Divine Worship will present the final phase in translations and approval of the Roman Missal for the United States, including proper prayers for Sundays and feast days. I suppose that's good, given the horrid translations we have lived with for the last couple of decades. However, I see no mention of unifying to support the pope's motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, which has had accurate translations side by side with the Latin since 1962. I guess we can expect them to pretend it just never happened.• The bishops will vote for the change from "vosotros" (meaning "all of you"--or "y'all" for southerners) to the slightly less formal "ustedes" for Spanish language Masses ("Vosotros" has dropped out of use in most Spanish speaking countries except Spain). This would not even be an issue if they obeyed Summorum Pontificum. But hey, what does the Pope know?• O'Brien reports: After the liturgical readings, the longest text to come before the bishops in June is a seven-page policy statement from the Committee on Pro-Life Activities on embryonic stem-cell research. The document is aimed at providing "background for the more pastoral educational resource on why Catholic couples should not resort to some reproductive technologies," said Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, committee chairman, in an introduction to the draft text. Humane Vitae was published (and ignored by many bishops) in 1968. It's 40 years later. How many times do we have to re-invent the wheel?
Do we really need another committee to teach us something as basic as natural law?• O'Brien also reports: The same group will be asked to accept a request from the Committee on Doctrine to begin revising passages in the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services" that relate to medically assisted nutrition and hydration. The directives guide Catholic health care facilities in addressing a wide range of ethical questions. The proposed revisions would be drawn up in consultation with the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities and would go back to the bishops for a vote before being finalized. Ditto my last comments.* The bishops will also will watch a 45-minute presentation by researchers from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York on their study of the causes and context of clergy sex abuse in this country. The study is set for completion in 2009. The bishops will consider a recommended structure for dialogue between priests and bishops about how the church has handled sex abuse allegations against clergy and how the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People," adopted by the bishops in Dallas in June 2002, has been implemented. "Structure for dialogue?" You have got to be kidding!
Can anyone name any profession in which management-level employees can sexually abuse people and keep their jobs? Or where the executives in charge of those managers get a pass and keep their jobs too?
Once again, I could have saved our bishops thousands of dollars from consulting with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It's this simple: STOP ORDAINING HOMOSEXUALS.And, once again, here are the statistics from the FIRST John Jay Report ( I guess they didn't like the first report, so they commissioned another). It's pretty clear: 84% of the sex abuse victims were males between the age of 10 and 17. That is not pedophilia. That's homosexuality.
Is it really necessary for these men to fly somewhere twice a year to meet and discuss such "urgent" matters?
Can we wrap this up so we can go to Disney World?
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Protest Gay Day!
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination..." -Leviticus 20:13 (King James Bible)
Homosexuality is a sexual sin. It was sexual sins, corruption, and violence which brought forth the judgment of God upon the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Old Testament...
"The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence." -Genesis 6:11
"Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." -Jude1:7
The Bible CONDEMNS homosexuality!
God created Adam and Eve, NOT Adam and Steve...
The Bible makes no apologies. Homosexuality is Sodomy, it is wickedness in the sight of God.
"And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly...Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them." -Romans 1:27,32
I do NOT judge anyone, but the Bible will be every man's judge...
"He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." -John 12:48
Every Christian believer should stand with uncompromising PROTEST against homosexuality. It is unimaginable that a day would come in America when a homosexuality agenda would be FORCED upon children in our public schools. We MUST protest against such evils in our society. The word "protest" means...
PROTEST: The act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval
Sadly, America has been DESENSITIZED by the godless programming on TV (what I have appropriately renamed the "Hellivision"). After thousands-upon-thousands of hours of watching repeated violence, sexual sins, and godless filth...America has lost her moral backbone. The United States today makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like NICE places to live. God will NEVER accept homosexuality. God was pleased that king Asa drove the Sodomites out of Judah...
"And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father. And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made." -1st Kings 15:11,12
DON'T BE FOOLED! Homosexuality is NOT the innocent relationships that we are all being led to believe. There is a very DARK SIDE to the homosexual society. The Statistics are Frightening!
Violence and Homosexuality
Myths About Homosexuality
Homosexuals Recruit Public School Children
Homosexual Behavior Fuels AIDS and STD Epidemic
PERVERT ALERT! - Pedophile Priests and the Boy Scotts
Homosexuality a Factor in Sex Abuse by Catholic Priests
Homosexuality and Child Molesting
Pedophile Priests (homosexuals)
Homosexuals Target Children
Lies About Homosexuality
NAMBLA EXPOSED!
Pedophilia and Homosexuals
 There are plenty of good reasons to outlaw homosexuality, even if the Bible didn't condemn it. Yet, the Bible DOES condemn homosexuality, lesbianism, bestiality, adultery, fornication, and lasciviousness. It is our duty as Christians to cry aloud in protest against homosexuality and ALL sexual sins.
PROTEST: The act of making a strong public expression of disagreement and disapproval
Every Christian should PROTEST against abortion, homosexuality and the godlessness within our own U.S. government. Even our politicians are guilty of pedophilia. Homosexuals are everywhere within the U.S. government.
Heterosexual People should PROTEST against the gay community, because what the homosexuals are doing is destroying America. They need help, spiritual help. They need God. I say this kindly.
God HATES homosexuality and pedophilia! There is a definite link between the two. NAMBLA is proof of this. Now there's a women's version of NAMBLA.
God doesn't hate people, and neither do I. God hates sin, but He loves the SINNER. God loves everybody. Jesus died upon the cross for ALL sinners...
"This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." -1st Timothy 1:15
The Bible is God's Word...eternal...inspired...infallible...inerrant...and preserved. The Bible was provided to mankind to instruct him. The Bible is God's love-letter to humanity. Unfortunately, many people reject the Bible as God's Word, damning their souls to hell. The Bible tells us how to go to heaven. Wouldn't you like to KNOW that your name is written in heaven? Youn certainly can! God will forgive the vilest sinner IF that sinner will only come to Jesus to be forgiven.
I am a sinner, and so are you. We are all sinners (Romans 3:10;23). Because of our sins, we deserve to burn in hell (Romans 6:23, Revelation 21:8). God loves us and doesn't want anyone to burn in hell (Romans 5:8; 2nd Peter 3:9). Jesus died upon the cross to pay for our sins...
"Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." -Hebrews 12:2
Would you like to be saved? If you believe that Jesus Christ is the Saviour Who died upon the cross for your sins. If you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, God incarnate Who came in the flesh, then you simply need to place your faith upon Christ by asking Him to forgive all your sins. You might pray something similar to this:
Dear Jesus,
I admit that I am a sinner, deserving of hell. Please forgive me of my sins and take me to heaven when I die. I now invite you into my heart as my personal Saviour, Amen.
The prayer is not magic, it is just words. The magic is the power of God, and it is the faith in your heart that brings about salvation. Salvation is of God, not man. All we can do is call upon the name of the Lord for forgiveness to be saved.
"For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." -Romans 10:13
Why does the "mainstream press" condemn the Catholic Church for allowing predatory homosexuals to destroy the lives of boys, while simultaneously condemning the Boy Scouts of America for not allowing precisely the same thing in their organization? -SOURCE
Gay Marriage is a Sin!
God Loves People (All people!)
Sodomy (Audio sermon by Pastor Jeff Owens)
NAMBLA Exposed!
Hope for Homosexuals
Myths About Homosexuality
The Homosexual Lifestyle is No White Picket Fence
Protest Gay Day!
Reclaiming the Rainbow
Homosexual Child Molesters!
Homosexuality and Pedophilia
Homosexuality and Child Sexual Abuse
Socrates was a Pederast Homosexual
Sodomite Ministers
"Pink Angels"
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) EXPOSED!
4-year old killed for refusing to call his mother's lesbian lover "daddy"
MILITANT MOB OF HOMOSEXUALS TARGET REPENT AMERICA
Homosexuality and Same Sex Marriage
George Michael Urges Gays to Take Religion Seriously
Swedish Pastor Sentenced to Prison for Preaching Against Sodomy
PHILLIES LOSE; REPENT AMERICA WINS
Homosexuality is Against Nature's Order
PERVERT ALERT! - Pedophile Priests and the Boy Scouts
Homosexuality a Factor in Sex Abuse by Catholic Priests
Homosexuals and the Pedophile Connection
The Homosexualization of America
Homosexuality and Child Molesting
Pedophile Priests (homosexuals)
Homosexuals Target Children
Lies About Homosexuality
NAMBLA EXPOSED!
Pedophilia and Homosexuals
Why Can't My Daddies Marry?
George Bush Cheers Gay Church!
High Court to Give 'Gays' Their Own 'Roe'?
Homosexual Agenda in Our Public Schools
Education secretary blasts PBS for cartoon with gay characters
Teachings of the Bible on sexual life, its glories, problems and deliverance
George Bush Cheers Gay Church!
High Court to Give 'Gays' Their Own 'Roe'?
Gay Pride?
Gay Tolerance?
Was King James a Homosexual?
Frightening Gay Statistics
Violence and Homosexuality
Homosexuality and Psychiatry (Homosexuality is VERY ABNORMAL!)
While homosexuals claim they make up 10% of the population, the reality is closer to 1-2%
Homosexuality 101: A Primer (.PDF) (Provides a brief history of the homosexual movement in the U.S. and its roots in Marxist ideology. This paper describes how homosexuals terrorized the psychiatric community and have created a marketing strategy to vilify their opponents.)
Homosexuals Recruit Public School Children (.PDF)
Homosexual Behavior Fuels AIDS and STD Epidemic (.PDF)
A Gender Identity Disorder Goes Mainstream (.PDF)
Homosexual Propaganda Campaign Based on Hitler’s “Big Lie” Technique (.PDF)
Homosexual Sex = Death from HIV Infection (.PDF)
Traditional Values Coalition Exposes Homosexual Agenda (.PDF)
Public Employees Teach Teens 'Gay' Sex Techniques (Including Fisting) at GLSEN Conference At Tufts University
GLSEN Fistgate Scandal at Tufts Detailed By Massachusetts News: http://www.massnews.com/past_issues/2000/Schools/fistarc.htm
Parents Rights Coalition Exposes GLSEN's Radical Agenda: http://www.parentsrightscoalition.org/Fistgate.htm
The GLSEN Files-SteveKaneShow.com: http://www.stevekaneshow.com/glsen.htm
Queering The Schools: http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_2_queering_the_schools.html
National Association For Research And Therapy Of Homosexuality: Activism In The Schools: http://www.narth.com/menus/schools.html
Crafting Bi/Homosexual Children: http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/academics/lawreview/articles/14_2Reisman.PDF
Child Molestation And The Homosexual Movement: http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/academics/lawreview/articles/14_2baldwin.PDF
Homosexuality Behavior & Pedophilia: http://us2000.org/cfmc/Pedophilia.pdf
How To Keep Gay Straight Alliance Clubs Out Of Your Public School: http://www.newswithviews.com/Linda/harvey1.htm
Critical Analysis Of GLSEN's Same-Sex Marriage Curriculum For Teens: http://www.drthrockmorton.com/samesexcur.pdf
Please put these banners on your webpage!
 
Do Something About the Homosexual Movement and Pedophilia
There is a way out!
If you really love someone, you'll tell them the truth.
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| The Shame of San Francisco Catholic Charities |
Published: April 8, 2008
Has San Francisco Catholic Charities become a homosexual-activist organization?
A faithful layman explains why he will not contribute to CCCYO at this coming Sunday’s special collection
News from the Trenches
 On April 13, the parishes of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will hold their annual special collection for Catholic Charities CYO (CCCYO).
I won’t be donating.
In 2005, we learned that CCCYO was facilitating adoptions by homosexual persons. Vatican teaching clearly states that such adoptions are unacceptable and the Vatican insisted this stop. CCCYO didn’t agree, so in consultation with openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty, they came up with a “compromise” that they claimed allowed them to continue to do adoption work (and accept public funding) while remaining faithful to the teachings of the Church. Instead of doing adoptions themselves, they provided paid staff (actually doubled the staff) to “Family Builders by Adoption,” who call themselves the “gayest adoption agency in the country.” This was termed “remote cooperation.” That is: CCCYO provided staff, but would have no say in where, or to whom, the adoptive children go. On the “GLBT Youth and Families” page of the “Family Builders” web site, we find this sentence: “In the state of California, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have the same rights as anyone to adopt a child.”
Remember, CCCYO and the archbishop, guided by theologians, justified CCCYO’s staffing Family Builders only in so far as they had no knowledge as to where the children go. So now, “Family Builders” is facilitating not only gay and lesbian, but also transgendered” persons to be adoptive parents. They are using staff paid, in part, from special collections taken at Masses. And by the terms of their own “compromise” -- the compromise the archbishop declared he was “very happy with” -- the archbishop, the theologians and CCCYO can say nothing about it.
 The preceding was sent as a letter to the editor of Catholic San Francisco, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco It wasn’t printed, which makes sense, since a letter arguing against giving money to an organization whose chairman of the board is also publisher of the newspaper will seldom get printed. But how did the situation described come about?
Family Builders by Adoption is a homosexual activist organization. Did CCCYO know with whom it was dealing? Yes. One of Family Builders’ board members is open homosexual Glenn Motola, himself a homosexual adoptive “father.” At the time the partnership between Family Builders and CCCYO was formed, Motola just happened to be director of Programs and Services at CCCYO.
Family Builders received grants from the Horizons Foundation, a big-league, homosexual-activist funding organization, in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2007. An openly lesbian lady named Nanette Lee Miller sits on the Audit Committee of the Horizons Foundation. She also just happens to be treasurer of CCCYO. Another of the groups funded (2002-2007) by the Horizons Foundation is the Transgender Law Center, an organization whose purpose is “equality” for “transgendered” persons. Their board chair is a man who goes by the name of “Lisa Rae” Dummer, who produced the 2007 San Francisco Transgender Cotillion and who is a Eucharistic Minister at notorious Most Holy Redeemer Church. His fellow acolyte and lector at MHR just happens to be Nannette Lee Miller, who, as mentioned, is treasurer of CCCYO, and sits on the Audit Committee of the Horizons Foundation, which funds Dummer’s organization.
 At the 2007 CCCYO “Red House” fundraiser, the emcee was transvestite “Donna Sachet.” Sachet sits on the board of the Equality California Institute, a group whose purpose is the legalization of same-sex marriage in California. In 2005, Equality California received a grant of $7,500 from the Horizons Foundation. Are we seeing a pattern yet?
Two of the highest-level recent/current members of CCCYO hold upper level board and committee positions in homosexual-activist organizations. Nanette Miller is also a past president of the “Golden Gate Business Association,” the “first GLBT Chamber of Commerce.” As mentioned, she also serves as an acolyte and lector at Most Holy Redeemer Church. She is also a member of the Liturgy Planning Group at MHR. To a faithful Catholic, the question immediately arises: How in the world did CCCYO allow people who are important members of homosexual-activist organizations to obtain such positions of authority? Was it negligence, or did they have the wool pulled over their eyes? The answer is simple: CCCYO has become, to a significant extent, a homosexual-activist organization itself.
Some history
In 1997 CCCYO was faced with a choice -- offer equal benefits to the “partners” of its homosexual employees or lose city funding. What is significant is that CCCYO employees came out forthrightly against the teaching of the Church and supported the city in this dispute. Catholic teaching lost, CCCYO won, and homosexual relationships were recognized as equal with natural marriage.
Three years later, in 2000, CCCYO began allowing adoptions by homosexual couples, again in violation of Church teaching. (Remember, while all this goes on, the archdiocese is mandating annual special collections at Masses to support CCCYO.) In 2005, these adoptions were made public -- and the Vatican ordered them stopped. Again, the archdiocese was faced with a choice: be true to Catholic teaching, or lose public funding. Again, opposition to Church teaching came from CCCYO. But this time the opposition to Church teaching came not from lower level employees, but from the executive director of CCCYO himself, Brian Cahill. And once again, the archdiocese came up with a compromise. This compromise resulted in CCCYO providing staff to “the gayest adoption agency in the country.” That same agency is now pitching children not only to gay and lesbian people, but to “transgender” people as well.
 And who brokered this compromise? According to the San Francisco Chronicle, it was openly gay Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who represents San Francisco’s Castro District, and who is himself a gay adoptive “father.” Dufty is a welcomed guest at Most Holy Redeemer; he has attended CCCYO fundraisers; he was the emcee at Family Builders’ 30th Anniversary party. Dufty was also one of the supervisors who signed resolution 168-06, which condemned the Catholic Church as hateful and bigoted for teaching that adoptive children should be placed in a home with a mother and a father.
Finally, as mentioned above, at CCCYO’s 2007 “Red House Fundraiser,” the emcee was transvestite “Donna Sachet.” This is significant. Sachet is a serious homosexual-activist, sitting on the board of the Equality California Institute. Sachet also hosted the VIP Party at the “Marriage Equality California” awards dinner in Mayor Gavin Newsom’s office in 2006. Sachet has appeared at numerous s/m events in San Francisco: the “Golden Dildeaux Awards,” the Folsom Street Fair, etc., including some at Most Holy Redeemer Church. Sachet’s presence at a CCCYO fundraiser indicates they no longer feel a need to hide the true nature of the organization.
Is any of this important? Yes. The first responsibility of the Church is the supernatural welfare of the children of God. The Church was created by Jesus to be the means of the reconciliation of God and man. Also, right from the beginning, the Church took responsibility for our natural welfare. It’s rare that there is a conflict between these two responsibilities. But if there ever is a conflict, the Church simply has to remember that supernatural welfare must come first.
With CCCYO such a conflict has occurred. Those supporters of the new adoptions policy said over and over again that their concern was the good of the children. But from a Catholic point of view, that’s insufficient. What wasn’t considered was the good of the homosexual/transgender adoptive persons. And from God’s point of view, they are every bit as important as the children. The Vatican said that allowing children to be adopted by homosexual persons amounted to “doing violence to the children.” But what was never said is that allowing adoptions by homosexual/transgender persons does violence to those persons. No adoption agency would give a child to a person they considered unfit. CCCYO allowed homosexual persons to adopt until the Vatican ordered it stopped, and it now staffs an agency that specifically targets homosexual/transgender adopters. CCCYO thus implicitly asserts that it’s OK to live a homosexual/transgendered lifestyle.
But since homosexual behavior is sinful, and sin alienates one from God, the Church must never say that it is OK. By doing so, they are abandoning the homosexual/transgender persons.
In approving this compromise, the archdiocese is saying to them: “We don’t care about you, except insofar as you can provide a materially decent environment to this child.” The archdiocese thus violates one of the most basic precepts of Catholic moral philosophy: they are treating persons as means rather than ends. The homosexual (and now transgender) adoptive parents are treated as just that, as parents, as functions, rather than as persons, as souls infinitely precious to God. As souls, as persons, they are considered expendable. But no human being is not a person, and no person is expendable. Not gay people, not “transgendered” people. No one.
The Archdiocese of San Francisco has been maneuvered into a position where its divine duty, the salvation of souls, has been subordinated to the mundane purpose of social work. It must radically change CCCYO, or sever ties with the organization.
(Editor’s note: The author of this article, Gibbons J. Cooney, is a Catholic living in San Francisco)
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| Life and Death in a “Gay” Parish |
| The Malfeasance of Cardinal Mahony |
| Hollywood's
Cardinal Must Go
LOS
ANGELES, Feb.
7 /Christian Newswire/ -- Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los
Angeles has spent three-quarters of a billion dollars in payouts to
victims of sex crimes, many of which he stands accused of
tolerating. Dr. Dennis Jarrard, former head of the Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, says,
"Cardinal Mahony must go" before Pope Benedict XVI arrives in the
United States in April.
Jarrard submits the following for publication and is available
for comment:
Hollywood's Cardinal Must Go
By Dennis Jarrard
When Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in an airport restroom, I
marveled at how easy it was to bust someone for lewd conduct simply
by interpreting the movements of his hands and feet. Yet I knew that
his reputation was ruined and that he'd be convicted, no matter how
ambiguous the evidence.
This arrest got me thinking back, oddly enough, to when I was
Chairman of Roger Cardinal Mahony's now-defunct Commission on
Obscenity and Pornography. What does Sen. Craig's arrest have to do
with Cardinal Mahony and pornography? Plenty.
His Archdiocese includes the Los Angeles area, which is the world
capital of pornography. Every year, Southland pornographers pour out
billions of dollars worth of DVDs, videos, magazines and other items
filled with this mental poison. Ads, catalogs and more than one
million Internet sites then spew these products at millions of
children and adults throughout his Archdiocese and at billions more
around the world.
This pornography hard-wires inflammatory images of rapes,
perversions, sexual tortures and other sociopathic acts into
countless minds. It has a huge influence on our sex-crime and
sex-disease statistics.
More than 900,000 women were raped in the last decade (police say
pornography use is all but universal among rapists, often just
before the crime). Last year, some 19 million Americans got VD,
including 8 to 10 million of our teenagers, who are major consumers
of pornography. Twenty-five percent of our teens contract VD before
they get their high school diplomas. (Less than one percent did so
in 1950, when the authorities enforced our obscenity laws.) One of
every five children over 12 now tests positive for genital herpes.
A pornography "star" who wrote an autobiography found pre-teen
girls flocking to her book signings; she was a positive role model,
they told her. Newsweek reports a 70 percent increase in teens from
middle- to upper-class homes choosing to become prostitutes, just to
make extra money.
What's astonishing is that it's easy to prosecute a U.S. senator,
but almost impossible to get an obscenity conviction against the
people who flood the world with images that trigger rapes and fan
the flames of VD, AIDS and prostitution. What a mockery of justice.
The leader in the fight against this illegal industry should be
the head of the largest church in Los Angeles. But that won't happen
as long as the discredited Roger Mahony stays in office. His
repeated shielding of clerical sex criminals makes it impossible for
him to preach against sexual evils. And he can hardly be a moral
leader after spending three-quarters of a billion dollars to
whitewash his own wrongdoing and keep his job.
Under Pope John Paul II, Alfonso Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, head of
the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family, sent me a letter
that encouraged the Archdiocese to fight pornography and said we
should reinstate the Hollywood decency code (as updated in 1956) to
clean up movies, videos and TV shows. Mahony ignored the letter.
For the good of children and society, Mahony must step down and
let Pope Benedict XVI appoint a strong archbishop who's not mired in
a sexual mess of his own making--an archbishop who'll influence
politicians, prosecutors and judges to do their duty.
I pray that when the Pontiff makes his first visit as Pope to the
United States in April, a new and much different archbishop of Los
Angeles will be in place to welcome him. Millions who love their
children and their country would give joyful thanks to God.
Dr. Dennis
Jarrard has taught in the University of California and California
State College and University systems, and served as an advisor to
the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' Commission on Obscenity
and Pornography.
Christian
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